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Intro Topic · Purple loosestrife

Aggressive, invasive plant

Negative Impact · Disastrous for native vegetation and animals

Up to 50 percent of wetland biomass displaced; degradation of breeding habitats

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Spread · Disturbed habitats most at risk

Purple loosestrife is spreading!

Control · Digging; glyphosate

Some success in slowing purple loosestrife. Note to self for next paragraph: Consequence: Need solution: Current solution (early detection and local eradication) seems insufficient for author?

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Other People's Position · War on purple loosestrife is to protect nature

I think the author's setting up this argument to take it down. This is more or less a summary of Passage A's position.

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Author's View · The war on purple loosestrife is about controlling nature

What's actually being threatened? Not much it seems. So the author argues that the war on purple loosestrife is about controlling nature.

Author's View · Economics is the real motivation for the war on purple loosestrife

Because purple loosestrife threatens revenues that depend on wetland resource like hunting, trapping, and recreation.

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Describe relationship

The correct answer will accurately describe the relationship between each passage. We can make a serious attempt at this only after reading both passages. The general relationship we might have in mind is that Passage B is skeptical of the argument made in Passage A, because Passage B thinks the impact of loosestrife on the environment isn’t significant.

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Passage A doesn’t present any evidence that directly contradicts anything Passage B says. Although Passage A considers the impact of loosestrife on wildlife significant, it doesn’t present any specific evidence that contradicts Passage B’s claims that the impact of loosestrife on wildlife isn’t significant or Passage B’s claims about which species are threatened or not threatened by loosestrife.

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Passage B is skeptical of Passage A. So it doesn’t assume what Passage A argues for.

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Passage B is aware of arguments like those in Passage A, as shown by Passage B’s reference to literature on the impacts of loosestrife. But Passage A doesn’t show any sign of awareness of the view that loosestrife isn’t a significant threat to wildlife.

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Passage B doesn’t advocate any policy. There’s no recommendation for what we should do or not do about loosestrife.

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This reverses the relationship. Passage B downplays the seriousness of claims made in Passage A.

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